Financial records belonging to Ousainou Bojang, the guy suspected of shooting two police officers dead at a busy Sukuta-Jabang Traffic Lights in September 2023, were admitted by a high court on Tuesday.
After the accused testified, Justice Jaiteh accepted Bojang’s record books, bank books, and deposit receipts as evidence. On September 12, 2023, at the Sukuta traffic lights, according to the prosecution, Bojang opened fire on three officers, killing two of them and seriously wounding the third. Additionally charged as an accessory after the fact is his sister, Amie Bojang. Both have refuted the accusations.
Defence lawyer Lamin J. Darboe guided Bojang through his testimony as the trial resumed, asking if he remembered objects that the police had taken from his house.
Bojang replied, “Yes,” and pointed to a black jacket, a shirt, white shoes, record books, Agib and Access Bank bank books, and a number of receipts.
When asked if he could recognise the objects, Bojang said he could. He noted that deposit receipts for 10,000, 20,000, and 9,000 dalasis were found in his financial records and were linked to an account owned by Claudette, whom he called “his white lady.”
Bojang examined the three receipts that Darboe showed him. Director of Public Prosecutions A.M. Yusuf did not object, and the court accepted the receipts as evidence, designating them as Exhibit D23.
Bojang also attested his Access Bank savings book, designated as Exhibit D25, and his Agib Bank savings book, which the court admitted as Exhibit D24.
The defence then turned to Bojang’s position as Claudette’s property manager. According to Bojang, he maintained thorough financial records, including a Qcell router receipt, that were preserved in two books.
The books were verified and then accepted into evidence by the court as Exhibits D26 A and B. Exhibit D27 also included a receipt for the router, which was valued at about 3,000 dalasis.
In response to enquiries on a missing 20,000-dalasi receipt, Darboe stated that the prosecution had examined the paperwork but had not returned it. In order to give the prosecution time to present it, he asked for an adjournment.
The plea was granted by Justice Jaiteh, who postponed the trial until today.
